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   No worries.  Insurance and a tax hike will pay for it.  The   
   little knocked-up cunt was certainly acting responsibly.  Not!   
      
   A federal jury on Friday awarded $21 million to the family of a   
   pregnant teenager killed by undercover police officers in   
   California.   
      
   Elena Mondragon was 16 years old and pregnant when she and four   
   other teenagers piled into a BMW in Hayward, Calif., in 2017.   
      
   According to the complaint filed in 2018 by a law firm   
   representing Elena's family, the BMW was cut off by a van filled   
   with undercover Fremont Police officers. The BMW driver, Rico   
   Tiger was wanted for several robberies, which Mondragon had not   
   known before the incident.   
      
   The plainclothes officers drew AR-15s, and in a panic, Tiger   
   tried to escape, prompting the undercover officers to fire at   
   the car.   
      
   Mondragon, who was in her first trimester, was killed. Tiger   
   escape, but was later arrested in San Francisco. He was charged   
   with the murder of Mondragon under the state provocation act,   
   according to Mercury News.   
      
   The Mercury News reported that Mondragon suffered multiple   
   wounds, including bullets and shrapnel. The law firm   
   representing Mondragon's family said in the complaint that the   
   killing was "a botched covert arrest operation."   
      
   Mondragon's case is unique because lawsuits over police killings   
   are settled a majority of the time.   
      
   "They banked that nobody was going to care about Ebbie. That's   
   what I believe." Melissa Nold, one of the family's attorneys,   
   told Mercury News. "They looked at the situation and who she was   
   and who her family was and decided that her life didn't matter,   
   that her life didn't have value."   
      
   The jury's decision after about two days of deliberation was "a   
   tremendous verdict for the family," the firm told the San   
   Francisco Chronicle. The family was awarded $21 million, making   
   this one of the largest settlements linked to the police. Tiger   
   was ordered to pay about half while the city of Fremont, and the   
   police were ordered to pay the rest.   
      
   "We hope a verdict like this sends the message that police   
   departments need to humble themselves in the face of community   
   demands that they do better, " Adante Pointer, an attorney for   
   Mondragon's mother, told The Mercury News.   
      
   https://www.insider.com/family-pregnant-teen-killed-police-   
   awarded-21-million-2022-6   
      
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